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as in darkened
being without light or without much light
I didn't like walking around the murky campground without a flashlight
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as in dark
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
the murky shadows of the cemetery
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as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
skies made murky from the smoke of forest fires that were many miles to the west
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as in ambiguous
having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning
a murky reply to a question about his intentions
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a gubernatorial candidate with a murky position on the hot-button issue of capital punishment
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Recent Examples of murky
This review is more about the home user experience than diving down into the murky depths of geekdom to verify manufacturer claims.
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Paul Ridden
june 22,
New Atlas,
22 June 2026
Chemical isotopes contained in the gas reveal details of the comet’s murky history—and a new study published in Nature (after it was posted online as a preprint in March) helps further color in that origin story.
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Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
22 June 2026
The horizon was a soft and murky pink.
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Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Zouzou Hobbs was skeptical at first of swimming in the murky urban canal.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
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Paul Ridden
june 22,
New Atlas,
22 June 2026
Chemical isotopes contained in the gas reveal details of the comet’s murky history—and a new study published in Nature (after it was posted online as a preprint in March) helps further color in that origin story.
—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
22 June 2026
The horizon was a soft and murky pink.
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Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Zouzou Hobbs was skeptical at first of swimming in the murky urban canal.
—
ABC News,
21 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for murky
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She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.
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In the darkened foyer, Ember contemplated this unassuming bit of paper, momentarily paralyzed by a mixture of dread and excitement stirred together, an overpowering sensation that oozed from the crown of her head, down the length of her body, then hardened, like a soft golden resin becoming solid.
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Tourism and city officials say that marketplace channels festival foot traffic directly to Black entrepreneurs and helps keep dollars circulating in local neighborhoods long after the stages go dark.
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Jason kept the look casual in a light blue graphic T-shirt, white shorts, a baseball cap and dark sunglasses.
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Greenberg tried his best to ignore an irritating ankle injury that had plagued him the last couple of weeks and grimaced under the hazy sunlight as the pitcher, probably 20 or more years his junior, stared him down.
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In the private ward in the maternity wing, everything is quiet, all the surfaces immaculate and clean as if nothing at all has happened, your mother still hazy with the blur of oxytocin and carbetocin, staring out the open window.
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As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.
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At a billion scans a month, even modest rates imply hundreds of millions of ambiguous results a year, each one demanding a clinical decision and producing a worried customer.
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Critics say Burnham’s politics are vague and fail to grapple with tough issues, such as where the money will come from to pay for his pledges.
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The truth is that the entire premise of the Cybercab rests on the promise of true autonomous operation, and that's the part that remains frustratingly vague.
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My father is a can-do, glass-half-full guy, a quality that has always felt like a rebuke of my own bleak world view, which makes the poor man literally wince.
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The numbers were even bleaker in other categories.
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The lushly green Canary Island is a haven for trekkers, with more than 300 miles of walking trails lacing over mountains and through misty subtropical rain forest.
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Ciudad Perdida, Colombia Hidden deep within the misty peaks of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the ancient city of Teyuna—better known as Ciudad Perdida—is one of South America’s most extraordinary archaeological sites.
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Bunnie Xo has shared a cryptic video on social media after news of her split from Jelly Roll surfaced.
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Jelly Roll is clarifying a cryptic post that's going viral amid his divorce from Bunnie Xo.
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“Murky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murky. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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